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Marine fishes and coastal resource management: mangrove-friendly development strategies
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Recent statistics of fishery production in the Philippines reveal outputs that are either declining (municipal fishery) or levelling off (commercial fishery and aquaculture). These trends are, in part, a reflection of the ...
Human health aspects of the use of chemicals in aquaculture, with special emphasis on food safety and regulations
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Safe and wholesome food is essential for good health. Therefore, when one considers health issues related to unsafe foods, recorded morbidity and mortality as well as economic losses in a population must be included. Due ...
The use of chemicals in aquaculture in India
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
A review of the use of chemotherapeutants and other chemicals and drugs in Indian aquaculture is presented. A large number of products are used for various purposes such as soil and water treatments, disinfectants, piscicides, ...
Transferable drug resistance plasmids in fish-pathogenic bacteria
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Chemotherapeutic agents have been developed for treating bacterial infections and have been widely used for cultured fish for the last 30 years in Japan. The extensive use of chemotherapeutants has resulted in an increase ...
Biological hazard possibly produced by aquaculture and its control
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2001)
Blooms of Neterocapsa circularisquama, a novel dinoflagellate, have been causing mass mortality of both wild and cultured shellfish in embayments at the western part of Japan since 1988. Physiological and epidemiological ...
Mangrove-associated mollusc research at SEAFDEC/AQD
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Mollusc research at the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center started in 1975 and focused on two commercially important mangrove-associated bivalves, the slipper-shaped oyster (Crassostrea ...
Chemicals in Asian aquaculture: need, usage, issues and challenges
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
This paper outlines the opening introductory presentation made at the “Expert Meeting on the Use of Chemicals in Aquaculture in Asia,” which was held 20-22 May 1996 at the SEAFDEC facilities in Tigbauan, Iloilo, the ...
Myanmar: Mangrove-friendly aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Myanmar has extensive mangrove forests in Ayeyarwady Delta, Rakhine, and Tanintharyi, but these have been drastically reduced due to paddy rice cultivation. Today, only 382,032 ha remain.
Myanmar is only now starting ...
Cambodia: Mangrove-friendly aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Cambodia has 435 km of coastline with 85,000 ha of mangrove forest. A big part of the mangrove area is in Koh Kong province (63,700) where intensive shrimp culture activity is also concentrated. Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) ...
The use of chemicals in aquafeed
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Various chemicals and additives used in fish and shrimp feeds may have impacts on animal health, product quality and the environment. This paper reviews the use and effects of vitamins (vitamins C and E), essential fatty ...